the Bible and the Holy Land. Ancient kings through to the present day have been anointed with oil from this sacred place, as per the Archbishop of Canterbury. For Christians, the Mount of Olives ...

On Palm Sunday in Jerusalem, Christians participated in the traditional procession marking the beginning of Holy Week with ... on the eastern side of the Mount of Olives. The faithful then ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land has warned in an interview ... plans to create a national park on the Mount of Olives — as a threat to the Christian ...

On Palm Sunday, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, called on Christians in the Holy Land to “hope ... eastern part of the Mount of Olives and ending at St ...

to the Holy Land and I think to the whole world.” The holy oil has been created using olives harvested from two groves on the Mount of Olives, at the Monastery of Mary Magdalene and the ...

His Beatitude Theophilos III, the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, and the city's Anglican Archbishop Hosam Naoum consecrated the Chrism oil in The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the palace said.

Like many pilgrims who travel to the Holy ... Land and walk in the steps of Jesus, Randazzo, 64, felt moved to tears. The leader of Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church in Westfield stood atop the ...

A Russian Orthodox church on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives is the unlikely final resting place for Princess Alice of Battenberg ...

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land has warned in an interview ... plans to create a national park on the Mount of Olives — as a threat to the Christian presence in the ...

and the promotion of plans to turn the Mount of Olives into a national park — have stoked outrage in the Holy Land and beyond. Netanyahu vowed to block the bill from moving forward after ...

Christian leaders are encouraging pilgrimages to the Holy Land, emphasizing its safety ... "I take a lot of groups to the lookout at the Mount of Olives, because it's meaningful to almost everyone ...